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No. 329,263. Patented Oct. 27, 1885.

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SPECIFICATION formingipart of Letters Patent No. 329,263, dated October 27, 18

Application Bled February 14, 18H5. Serial No. 155,870. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, MELLEN BRAY, of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lacing Studs for Gloves, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

My invention relates to lacing-studs for use upon gloves, and to the manner of applying them thereto, and is an improvement upon the invention described in Letters Patent No. 301,332, granted to me July 1, 1884; and

it consists in the combination, with a lacing hook orstud, of a concavo-convex washer provided with a central aperture, to receive the shank or fastening portion of said stud when applied thereto with its concave side toward the head of the-stud or hook, with its outer rim beyond the base of the stud peripherally, and iiiclosing and surrounding the base of the same, and pressing the material all around said base above the outer face thereof', aswill be more fully described.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan of my improved lacing-stud. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 aie respectively a plan and a central section of the washer. Fig. 5 is a central longitudinal section of the stud and washer applied to a piece of glove-kid or other material; and Figs. 6 and 7 are respectively a side elevation and a central longitudinal section of-a modified form of the stud, in which the central aperture in the outer head is dispensed with.

All of the figures are drawn to a scale several times larger than thenatural size of the article, for the purpose of more clearly representing the construction of the several parts.

This stud and its washer are designed especially for use upon gloves, and consequently are of necessity much smaller than studs and hooks for use upon boots and shoes; and in order to obviate as far'as possible the danger of laces and fringes catching upon the hooks, it is necessary that the space between the outer head and the inner collar should be less at a point in their peripheries opposite the neck than next to the neck; and in order that the small stud used on gloves may be readily set without disturbing the position of the outer head relative to the base or inner collar or head, the outer head may be perforated, so that a projection of the anvil may pass through said perforation and beai` directly upon the outer surface of the inner collar or head,.and thus receive .the blow of clinching the shank.

In the drawings, a is the outer head, having a convex outer surface,v and provided with a the stud, and also as a means of enabling the anvil used4 in setting the stud to bear directly upon the outer surface of the inner head, I), and sustain the shock of the clinchingblow without danger of displacing the outer head, a, by bending the neck c, which connects the heads a and b at one side in the usual manner. The shank d has formed therein the conical vrecess d', which extends nearly the whole length of the shank, and is of such a diameter shank to au annular knife-edge, adapted to cut its own way through the material, as shown in Figs. 2 and 7. single piece of wire by the process described in Letters Patent No. 256,116, granted to me April 11, 1882, and the conical recess is formed by pressure at the same time that the outer head and neck are swaged, thus saving the after operation of drilling, which is a great advantage, especially in such small studs as are desired for use on gloves. The washer e is made from thin sheet metal, and is pressed by suitable dies into the desired concavo-convex shape, and is provided with the central aperture, e', to receive the shank d of the lacingstud, said washer being applied to said stud with its concave side toward the heads of the stud, with its outer rim projecting beyondthe periphery of the base-col1ar, with the material posed between it and the inner head or basecollar, b, of the stud, as shown in Fig. 5, the effect of which is to throw the material upward all around said base-collar, so that its outer surface is above the level of the outer surface of the head b, or, in other words, to cause the embedding or sinking of the head f, to which the stud is to be attached, iutercentral perforation, a', which serves to lighten at its outer end as to reduce the end of the 7f5 This stud is made fromf'a b below the level of the outer surface of the material, so as to diminish the projection of the studs, and thus improve the appearance of the glove, and at the same time reduce the danger of laces and fringes catching in the lacing-hooks, and also to render the lacingeord less liable to slip and become slack when the glove is laced, by virtue of the friction of the kid upon the cord.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

In combination with a lacing stud or hook, a coneavo-convex washer provided with a central aperture to receive the shank or fastening portion of said stud or hook, and applied thereto .with itsvconeave side toward the head of the stud or hook, with its outer riin beyond the base of the stud peripherally, and inolosing and surrounding the same, and pressing the material all around said. base above the outer face thereof, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses, on this 12th day of February, A. D. 1885.

MELLEN BRAY.

Witnesses:

N. C. LOMBARD, WALTER LOMBARD. 

